Frankie is part of the war-machine, a successful aerospace engineer designing drones for the military. When she meets Kahil, a French-Algerian student, she embarks on a passionate affair and for the first time in her life she utterly, thrillingly, loses control. One morning at work, she's detained by the security services and told that Kahil is a "person of interest". She finds that she has crossed a line into a nightmare world of suspicion and accusation.

Flying Blind was shot in Bristol and made under Creative England’s low budget initiative iFeatures. The cast includes Helen McCrory (Hugo, Skyfall, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince), French-Algerian Najib Oudghiri (Rendition, The Wedding Song) and Kenneth Cranham (Hot Fuzz, Valkyrie).

In this event recording, director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz and producer Alison Sterling talk about the film, discussing the significance of making the film in Bristol, and answering audience questions.

Flying Blind is the first feature film by young Polish director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, who has collaborated with Polish National Television on many projects including her documentary Krystian Lupa’s Labyrinth. She co-directed the documentary Wasserschlacht – The Great Border Battle with Andrew Friedman, which was awarded the Berlin Today Award at the 2007 Berlinale. Her short film Hanoi-Warsaw (screened at Encounters in 2009) was voted the Best Short of 2010 by the European Film Academy.

Alison Sterling is a producer who has worked on a number of short films including Skin Deep, Bred in the Bone, Forever, Ladies, In His Shoes, Luke and the Void, Turning (BAFTA nominated 2011) and Flytopia for Ignition Films.

Posted on Sat 22 Sept 2012.

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